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From the dusty corners of the museum…Cornelia Parker
I am more curious about the elements that, by being so widespread, are usually for that very reason shielded from view. The voices of dust, the soul of dust, these interest me a lot more than flowers,...
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Agnes Richter’s embroidered straitjacket
Agnes Richter was a German seamstress held as a patient in an insane asylum during the 1890s. During her time there, she densely embroidered her straitjacket with words, undecipherable phrases and...
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Museum accession numbers are like gang tattoos
I think one of the most bizarre museum practices is the act of marking museum artefacts with an accession number. Like the tattoos of gang members, it is a permanent symbol which marks their lifelong...
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Prisoners’ Inventions Project by Temporary Services
Temporary Services is an artist collective (made up of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer) based out of Chicago, who create activist-minded public projects which challenge conventional...
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GUEST POST: A jar of pickled moles, haunting trees, Friday disasters and...
I am very excited to present today’s post, a bevy of fascinating things selected by curator Neil Lebeter. Neil is archivist curator at the New Art Gallery Walsall, where he is currently working with...
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Last meals of death row convicts by James Reynolds
For a while now, I’ve had this weird idea of hosting a series of macabre dinner parties which serves the last meals requested by convicts on death row. (Although I think I might need to find more...
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The Museum of Broken Relationships
A monument to broken hearts and lost loves, the clever Museum of Broken Relationships features objects related to former romantic relationships, anonymously donated by broken-hearted people all over...
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Abandoned suitcases of insane asylum patients
These fascinating images show abandoned suitcases which belonged to patients who were residents of the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane between the 1910s and early 1960s. The institution stored...
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